High-field electrical transport and breakdown in bundles of single-wall carbon nanotubes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 24, 2001, Pages

  Radosavljevic M ^a   Lefebvre, J ^a   Johnson, A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; METAL;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; NANOPARTICLE; TUBE;

EID: 0035894519     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.241307     Document Type: Article

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